Where the hell is Matt Harding? Dancing all over the world that’s where. A video of Harding doing a jig in different spots all over the globe is one of the most popular on YouTube. He phoned in to WINA recently to speak with Coy Barefoot on Charlottesville–Right Now.

Even though Charlottesville does not have a port, the University of Virginia is now home to the Semester at Sea program. That’s where students take classes aboard a ship that travels around the world. U.Va Spanish professor David Gies will serve as the academic dean of the maiden voyage, and Dudley Doane is the director of summer and special academic programs at U.Va. David and Dudley join Coy Barefoot on the July 21st edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss how program.

CharlottesvilleÃ¢â‚¬â€œRight Now is broadcast live Monday through Friday on NewsRadio 1070 WINA from 4 to 6pm. Best-selling author and historian Coy Barefoot is the host and producer. To participate in the program, you can call 434-977-1070. Coy can be reached at barefoot@wina.com.

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Blogger Sean McCord joins Coy Barefoot on the July 20th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to talk about how he started his weblog Semi Truths, and about this Saturday and Sunday’s Weekends Without Echoes, in which bloggers are challenged to write original articles rather than react to postings in the blogosphere.

The Rutherford Institute is a non-profit legal organization “dedicated to the defense of civil liberties and human rights.” Rutherford lawyers represent people who feel their constitutional rights have been threatened. But, Rutherford also has an educational mission as well, and offers a speaker series. Kent Willis of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia gave a two-hour presentation talk this week.

On Saturday, March 25, 2006, the online journal Archipelago sponsored a conversation at the Virginia Festival of the Book with the historians Barbara Clark Smith and Mark McGarvie. Katherine McNamara was moderator.

Barbara Clark Smith is a curator at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, where she specializes in the history of politics and movements for reform. She has curated major exhibitions at the National Museum, and is working on a book on the topic of forms of liberty enjoyed by subjects of the British monarchy in 18th-century North America that became unavailable to citizens under the new United States in the 19th century, to be called The Freedomes We Lost: A History of Consent in Revolutionary America.

Attorney General Bob McDonnell joined Coy Barefoot on the July 19th edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now to discuss how children can be protected from Internet sites like Facebook and MySpace.

“We’ve had some fairly shocking numbers of sexual predators that are trolling online in America, as many as fifty-thousand at any one time,” says McDonnell. Towards the end of the show, Coy also asks McDonnell about the rights parents have to be present when police interview their children.

Kay Peaslee moved to Charlottesville 36 years ago from Nova Scotia. She founded the now defunct Observer with her late husband. Kay recently dropped by WINA to chat with Coy Barefoot about her recollections of Charlottesville, the changes that have occured since 1970, and how the local media scene has evolved.

David Swanson of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice drops by the studio to discuss the possibility of impeachment with Coy Barefoot on the July 18 edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now.

CharlottesvilleÃ¢â‚¬â€œRight Now is broadcast live Monday through Friday on NewsRadio 1070 WINA from 4 to 6pm. Best-selling author and historian Coy Barefoot is the host and producer. To participate in the program, you can call 434-977-1070. Coy can be reached at barefoot@wina.com.

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Delegate David Toscano of Charlottesville and Albemarle County recaps his freshman term in the Virginia General Assembly, a blockbuster session which lasted from January 11 and lasted until June 28. The conversation begins with a discussion of the rules set forth on the first day, and extends to a talk about what Toscano believes are the highlights and lowlights of the session. He is proud of the raise in teacher salaries.

If you want to know what it’s like to be a first-term legislator, take a listen. At ten minutes in, Toscano talks about the hazing that goes on, as well as the “pop-up” rule. Listen in and find out which day was his worst in the House.

CharlottesvilleÃ¢â‚¬â€œRight Now is broadcast live Monday through Friday on NewsRadio 1070 WINA from 4 to 6pm. Best-selling author and historian Coy Barefoot is the host and producer. To participate in the program, you can call 434-977-1070. Coy can be reached at barefoot@wina.com.

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